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Islam Makhachev, Frankie Edgar and Du Plessis's own coach have circled the same fight-week question about Kamaru Usman's move to middleweight: can his knees still carry his wrestling?
Holloway ended McGregor's comeback and our model called it; tonight it's Du Plessis vs. Usman in Oklahoma City. The autopsy, the build, and an honest hold on tonight's number.
UFC 329 autopsy: our model tagged Max Holloway a HIGH pick against a returning Conor McGregor, went 4-for-4 on every conviction call and got the method right too. The only losses were toss-ups.
McGregor's back Saturday after 1,827 days, the fight world is split on it, and the model won't fake a read. UFC 329 week, plus the bookings and where our numbers stand.
Aspinall says Round 1 knockout. Masvidal says Ferrari with a quarter tank. Belal, Mendes and Matt Brown all land somewhere in between. Here's every UFC 329 take, sorted.
Thirteen years after McGregor won their featherweight fight, the rematch lands at welterweight with a five-year layoff attached. The model favors Holloway, but this is exactly the fight it knows least about.
A quiet booking week put a middleweight main event on the calendar, handed Marlon Vera a way off a four-fight skid, and sent an ex-PFL champ to Abu Dhabi. Here is what each move is actually for.
UFC 329 is set for July 11 with start times and the full card out. Dan Hooker tips his cap, Georges St-Pierre talks "hell zone," and Justin Gaethje wants a seat. Here is the honest read, including why we will not hand yo…
GSP gives the welterweight champ the edge over Garry; one division down, Pimblett and Tsarukyan's camp pull the contender debate in opposite directions.
Alex Pereira shared a petition to ban Herb Dean, Tom Aspinall and Jorge Masvidal piled on, and Dana White punted to the commission. The foul claim is still an allegation, and the officiating debate it reopened is the rea…
Our model went 11-2 on winners in Baku, one of its better cards of the year. It still missed twice: the main event it graded a coin flip, and a high-confidence pick that got submitted in the first round.
Baku's done and the model graded its misses; McGregor-Holloway fight week is here; and a referee is still the story. The day's threads and where our numbers stand.
The No. 3 bantamweight called Song a "punching bag." On the same January card we modeled Song's O'Malley loss as a near coin flip.
The Predator says a Rico Verhoeven crossover is "what I have in mind for right now." The UFC superfight everyone wants is still a fan poll with no contract behind it.
The former middleweight champ opens around -340 over a welterweight legend moving up. The odds gap is the story; our model hasn't priced this one.
The UFC sold Freedom 250 as a viewership event. A week on, the figures depend on which figure you pick, and the one White says matters most is not out yet.
We finished grading every 2026 card with a prediction: 67.4% across 187 calls, hits and misses. Plus Baku week, the McGregor-Holloway build, and the White House fallout.
An Azerbaijani lightweight tops UFC Fight Night 280, but our model and the recent records both lean toward the younger finisher across the cage.
Bisping and Pimblett both point to one number on Conor McGregor's side. We'd point to the five years no one can model.
Retire Gaethje, push McGregor into the "hell zone," defend Zahabi's plan. Different fighters, one throughline from a man who walked away on top.
Justin Gaethje turned down Arman Tsarukyan's $5.7 million-funded gift and floated a different ask: an ownership stake in the UFC. One is a feud. The other is a fighter-pay argument the sport keeps circling back to.
Eight days after a contested heavyweight title loss, Alex Pereira has openly questioned whether he wants to keep fighting. Joe Rogan, weighing in on the disputed blows, landed somewhere in the middle: a couple were illeg…
Our data sweep for the sport's biggest return arcs surfaced one gap that dwarfs the rest: 3,290 days between Octagon appearances.
A prospect-heavy card with a flyweight headliner that pits the division's hottest finisher against its best return story.
Manel Kape is finishing everyone in front of him. Kyoji Horiguchi is two wins into a return nine years in the making.
Navajo Stirling is 4-0 in the UFC; Ion Cutelaba has seen everything the light heavyweight division can throw at him.
Both men need a result — and a common opponent hangs over the matchup.
Vinicius Oliveira built a strong run before a recent stumble; Andre Fili is the 26-fight veteran who tests everyone.
Melsik Baghdasaryan looks to recover from a brutal knockout; his opponent arrives with no UFC tape.
Kape erased a 2017 loss to Kyoji Horiguchi with a third-round knockout at UFC Vegas 119, then asked for Joshua Van. Our model went 9 of 12 on the night, but its one LOCK lost.
After six months of leaks and a cryptic Instagram jab, the UFC made it official Saturday night: Dricus du Plessis returns against a former welterweight king moving up to chase a second belt.
An AI ranking system debuts Monday alongside the media panel. As a data-led desk, we know the parts that will work and the parts that won't.
A week after Ciryl Gane stopped Alex Pereira for the interim heavyweight title, the fight has become an officiating story. Dana White says Pereira is no whiner. MMA Fighting is asking whether Gane is the sport's dirtiest…
A reported $100 million ask kept Trevor Wittman's gloves out of the cage, while Dana White called Tom Aspinall's deal with a boxing promoter "insane." Both fights run on the same question: who captures the value in a UFC…
The model went 7 for 7 on finishes and called a coin-flip headliner right. It also burned its single biggest pick of the night for the second card running. Here is the full grade, misses included.
The new lightweight champion says he doesn't want a Topuria rematch. A revenge fight, a megastar and a snubbed No. 1 contender are all circling.
Makhachev put a $20M figure on the superfight that collapsed, while pouring his own money into padel and warning the UFC's pay could cost it Usman Nurmagomedov.
A jab at Holloway, a Tonight Show booking that drew real anger, and an International Fight Week return: the volume is back. The fighter has been gone five years.
Two top-five light heavyweights, both off losses to elite competition, fight to lead a scrambled division. FightIQ has no model number for this card yet, so this runs on verified records and market context.
Two title fights and a flyweight eliminator are signed for Philadelphia on Aug. 15. The rest is still rumor, including a light heavyweight bout the reporting suggests may not even fit.